Means for holding bed-sheets in position.



PATENTED SEPT. 22, 1903.

P. KAHL. MEANS FOR HOLDING BED SHEETS IN POSITION.

APPLIOATION FILED MAY 2, 1903.

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WITNESSES lit/YEN TOR fiQTQZA/W Prederztkflakl ATTORNEYS UNITED STATES Patented September 22, 1903.

PATENT OFFICE.

MEANS FOR HOLDlNG BED-SHEETS IN POSlTlON.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Eatent No. 739,682, dated September 22, 1903. Application filed May 2, 1903. Serial No. 155,306. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, FREDERICK KAHL,asubject of the Emperor of Germany, residing at Weehawken, in the county of Hudson and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Means for Holding Bed-Sheets in Position,of which the following is a specification, such as will enable those skilled in-the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

The object of this invention is to provide means for holding a bed-sheet in proper position on a mattress, so as to prevent the sheet from wrinkling or becoming twisted or otherwise getting out of position.

The invention is fully disclosed in the following specification, of which the accompa nying drawings form a part, in which the separate parts of-myimprovement are designated by suitable reference characters in each of the views, and in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of a bed the sheet of which is provided with myimprovement; and Fig. 2 a transverse section of the bed-frame, mattress, and sheet and showing my improvement.

In the drawings forming part of this specification I have shown in Fig. 1 an ordinary bedstead or frame, which comprises the usual end members a and Z), side bars 0, and transverse end bars d; but my invention is notlimited in any way to the construction of a bedstead or frame. I have also shown at e an ordinary mattress and at f a sheet, which is placed thereover, and in practice I form in the sides of the sheet, at the edge thereof, hems or pockets f through which are passed rods 9, and these rods are provided at their ends with holes g and connected therewith are springs h, which are provided with hook members hi which are adapted to engage the bottom of the side bars 0 of the bedstead or frame.

The springs it hold the sheet f in proper position and stretched smoothly and evenly across the top of the mattress. It will be un derstood that the usual bed -ooverings are placed over the sheet f in the ordinarymanner, and the length of the springs it may be regulated so as to adapt the apparatus to any style of bed-frame or bedstead.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters FREDERICK KAHL.

Witnesses:

J. O. LARSEN, F. A. STEWART. 

